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[MB2-2]ANN Equalizer for Performance Improvement of PAM-M Signals Using 1.3-μm Membrane DML-on-Silicon

〇Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos, Takuro Fujii, Hidetaka Nishi, Koji Takeda, Takaaki Kakitsuka, Shinji Matsuo (NTT Corporation, Japan)

Keywords:

Transmission experiments for long haul,core and metro applications including data-center interconnect,Digital signal processing techniques for optical communications,Data Center Network and Subsystem,Si photonic and heterogeneous platform

A two-stage nonlinear equalization scheme based on a reduced Volterra filter and an artificial neural network (ANN) is studied for energy-efficient short-reach optical interconnects using 1.3-μm directly-modulated membrane lasers on silicon (DML-on-Si) and PAM-M signals.